Silicon Gorge

Gloucester is home to a number of cyber/digital companies including some key UK data centres and hosting companies. Lots of these companies started in the early years of the Internet such as Star Internet, now Claranet and Fasthosts, now IONOS - two long standing employers in the area. Supporting Gloucester and the south-west infrastructure is a data centre that sits on the figure-of-eight fibre connectivity route that runs around the UK, [https://www.indectron.com/company/about/ Indectron Data Centre] where many carriers have points-of-presence (POP). This includes Tier 1 network, which puts Gloucester along side Manchester and London on the connectivity rankings.

The area is fast becoming known for cyber security with the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) locally in Cheltenham (since 1950). New cyber accelerators such as CyNam have been growing, with a new £1 billon cyber park called Golden Valley pushing growth even further of the sector within the region.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lpngp5w2ko

Bath is home to a number of high-tech companies ranging from fabless semiconductor designers to eCommerce retailers. Many companies have been started by ex-employees of companies such as Future Publishing and IPL, two long standing employers in the area.

• PicoChip{{cite web|url=http://www.picochip.com/ |title=Picochip |accessdate=12 July 2011}}

• Lovehoney uk sex-toy retailer.
• The Filter media recommendation service.
• Netcraft Internet Research and Security

Bristol is part of the Silicon Gorge, along with Gloucester and Swindon{{cite book |title=Learning for Innovation in the Global Knowledge Economy |last=Konstadakopulos |first=Dimitrios |year=2004 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=978-1-84150-085-0 |page=33 }} and hosts a number of high-tech and creative industries including research group HP Labs and animation studio Aardman Animations. The cluster of high-tech electronics industries began when Fairchild Semiconductor located a design office in Bristol in 1972.{{cite web|url=http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documents/Semiconductorsv10.pdf |title=Chips with everything. Lessons for effective government support for clusters from the South West semiconductor industry |first=Louise |last=Marston |author2=Shanmugalingam, Shantha |author3=Westlake, Stian |publisher=Nesta |format=PDF |accessdate=11 July 2011}} Bristol also has the strongest digital media supply chain in England, outside London{{cite web |url=http://southwestengland.co.uk/working_for_the_region/areas/west_of_england.aspx |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-07-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110710000726/http%3A//www.southwestengland.co.uk/working_for_the_region/areas/west_of_england.aspx |archivedate=2011-07-10 }} and has been pinpointed as a "hot spring" for innovation on the McKinsey/World Economic Forum innovation map.{{cite web |url=http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/innovation/building-an-innovation-nation |title=What Matters: Building an innovation nation |first=Andre |last=Andonian |author2=Loos, Christoph |author3=Pires, Luiz |accessdate=11 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714063807/http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/innovation/building-an-innovation-nation |archivedate=14 July 2011 }}

• Blu Wireless
• Broadcom
• Cray Supercomputers
• Codasip
• Graphcore AI accelerators
• HP Labs
• Imagination Technologies
• Infineon
• Nordic Semiconductor
• Sondrel
• Qualcomm
• UltraSoC
• XMOS

• Blackmagic Design
• Just Eat
• Open Bionics
• Zap Map

• Bristol Robotics Laboratory Hardware Incubator [https://www.bristolroboticslab.com/hardware-incubator]
• SETsquared{{cite web|url=http://www.setsquared.co.uk/partnership/business-incubation-business-acceleration |title=Business Incubation - Business Acceleration|accessdate=14 July 2011}}
• Spike Design {{cite web|url=http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/spikedesign/incubation |title=About Business Incubation|accessdate=14 July 2011}}

• [http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk Media Sandbox] by Watershed Media Centre

• Bristol Media

• Aardman Animations
• Dyson
• Gresham Technologies plc
• IMDb{{cite web|url=http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/POWERFUL-MAN-MOVIES/story-11291482-detail/story.html |title=Bristol father of two is Hollywood movie website {{sic|nolink=y|entrepeneur|expected=entrepreneur}} |publisher=This is Bristol |accessdate=12 July 2011}}
• Renishaw plc
• Viral Ad Network

• Swindon

Cities sometimes associated with the region:

• Exeter
• Southampton
• Plymouth

• University of Bristol
• University of the West of England
• University of Bath
• University of Exeter
• Bath Spa University

• Silicon Fen
• Silicon Glen
• Silicon Valley
• M4 Corridor

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